Its National Recycling Week Started by Planet Ark, Australia in 1996 its about changing our take, make and dispose culture and making sure anything we have is used for as long as possible to reduce waste. Its a higher goal that just recycling, a mindset change in our approach to stuff!
So this is a shout out to anyone that has an old violin not doing anything, even if it’s in bits I’m interested. I’ll either get it going for the next family to love or use the parts to get another one up to speed.
Recently I put together a student violin that had been sat on, the front cracked open in multiple placs (and the bar bar on the inside) and the back split open as well. Whats most interesting, is that whilst I was in there I managed to clean up a lot of the work done during manufacture (it’s a mass manufactured, albeit better quality $400 student violin) and once it was all back together, with a good new sound post it sounds better than one I have that wasn’t damaged. Of course though it doesn’t quite look as pretty any more….I guess we all get we all get cracks…err wrinkles with age though right 😉 Its a few hrs of life I’ll never get back and doesn’t make sense financially, but its one less bit of forest relegated to landfill though!
I’d love to give this one away but my teacher has set his apprentice (me) the task of carving an entirely new bass bar for it, the only catch though is he says I gotta make the clamps, and the planes to do it though…….
Dan